[Nyororin]

I can`t comment on blood checks for visas as I have never gotten a work or student visa, but I can scare you even more. Every employer and school out there requires their employees and students to take part in the national health exams. Depending on your age and health check history, a blood test may just be the start. Shoving cameras down your throat and... up other more unpleasant places... is the norm. Even if the visa itself doesn`t require a blood test, you can almost guarantee that anywhere you work or go to school WILL.

I understand your horror though. I simply don`t bleed when they try to take blood, so I always have to have it suctioned out of me over 15+ minutes... *shudder*
I don`t even want to talk about IVs... I have a true phobia of them.

The funny thing is, I`m not particularly scared of needles, nor of blood. Just of having blood pulled out of me and the agonizing pain that follows when the vein inevitably collapses.